fretwork

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The piece takes inspiration from Chinese fretwork patterns, Art Noveau designs and German sculptor Hugo Leven’s iconic pewter bat candelabras.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

Despite some impressive fretwork from the star, the revved up audience's attention drifts somewhat.

From BBC • Aug. 26, 2023

Its fretwork of thin glass tubes was bent and shaped to resemble an old-fashioned bellows camera.

From Washington Post • Apr. 16, 2023

The 71-foot-high glass pyramid he built as the Louvre’s new entrance relied for its extraordinary visual lightness on a fretwork of stainless-steel rods and cables made by a manufacturer of yacht rigging.

From Seattle Times • May 16, 2019

Here a fretwork wooden chef on his back, holding a board on which remains chalked today’s soup.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr